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'It could be profound': How astronomer Wendy Freedman is trying to fix the universeUniversity of Chicago astronomer Wendy Freedman tells us how she's searching for an answer to the Hubble tension — a discrepancy between measurements of our universe's expansion that could threaten the dominant model of how the universe has grown since the Big Bang.
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Earth slammed by ultra-powerful 'goddess particle' cosmic ray, and we have no idea where it came fromResearchers recently detected an "ultra-high-energy" cosmic ray, which is the most powerful since the famous "Oh My God" particle was detected in 1991. They have no idea where it came from.
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Many physicists think we live in a multiverse. But they're getting a simple math rule wrong.Our universe seems to be perfectly suited for life. But anyone who claims that's evidence of a multiverse is falling prey to a logical fallacy.
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Scientists found a way for two black holes to orbit each other forever without collidingContrary to conventional wisdom, a pair of black holes could exist in perfect pairs without leading to a cataclysmic merger, new research suggests. All it takes is a dose of cosmic expansion.
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Scientists propose 'missing' law for the evolution of everything in the universeThe "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become more complex.
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Ancient supernova in James Webb telescope image could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteriesNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a distant supernova that appears three times in the same photo. The new observations could help solve one of the universe's biggest inconsistencies.
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Could a black hole devour the universe?Black holes can swallow stars, planets and even merge with other black holes, but could a massive one swallow the entire universe?
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5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang, the theory that defines the history of the universeFrom the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang.
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Is there an 'up' and a 'down' in space?Any object with mass distorts the space-time continuum, which we perceive as gravity pulling us "down" toward that object's center.
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